Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven was a jazz studio group organized to make a series of recordings for Okeh Records in Chicago, Illinois, in May 1927.[1] Some of the personnel also recorded with Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, including Johnny Dodds (clarinet), Lil Armstrong (piano), and Johnny St. Cyr (banjo and guitar). These musicians were augmented by Dodds's brother, Baby Dodds (drums), Pete Briggs (tuba), and John Thomas (trombone, replacing Armstrong's usual trombonist, Kid Ory, who was then touring with King Oliver). Briggs and Thomas were at the time working with Armstrong's performing group, the Sunset Stompers.
In five sessions between May 7 and May 14, 1927, the group recorded at least 12 sides, including "Willie the Weeper," "Wild Man Blues", "Twelfth Street Rag" and "Potato Head Blues" (celebrated for Louis Armstrong's stop-time solo and triumphant ride-out final chorus). Thomas Brothers cites "Wild Man Blues" as a "breathtaking breakthrough" for Armstrong's solo style because of its "effortless flow between melody, embellishment, fill-ins, and breaks."[2]
In these records, Armstrong continued and further developed his mastery of the jazz solo, almost completely dominating some of the numbers and further breaking down the New Orleans jazz style of collective improvisation into a vehicle for the soloist. In addition to his continued personal development, the Hot Seven sides feature Armstrong's new inclination towards worked-out and rehearsed arrangements, which can be heard in "Chicago Breakdown" and "Willie the Weeper."[3]
The Hot Seven song "Melancholy Blues" is included on the Voyager Golden Record, attached to the Voyager spacecraft.[4]
See also
- Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
- Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Hot Seven Sessions
- Hot Fives & Sevens
References
- ^ Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Part 1 Media, Industry, Society. Bloomsbury Publishing p. 746. 2003. ISBN 978-1-8471-4473-7.
- ^ Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
- ^ Brothers, Thomas (2014). Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. pp. 260–63. ISBN 978-0-393-06582-4.
- ^ Meier, Allison (September 29, 2016). "Reissuing the Voyager Golden Record, NASA's Quixotic Message to the Stars". Hyperallergic. Retrieved March 26, 2019.
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singles
- "Muskrat Ramble" (1926)
- "Hotter Than That"
- "West End Blues" (1928)
- "Ain't Misbehavin'" (1929)
- "Chinatown, My Chinatown" (1932)
- "You Can Depend on Me"
- "All of Me"
- "Love, You Funny Thing"
- "Sweethearts on Parade"
- "Body and Soul" (1932)
- "Hobo, You Can't Ride This Train" (1933)
- "I'm in the Mood for Love/You Are My Lucky Star" (1935)
- "Public Melody Number One" (1937)
- "When the Saints Go Marching In" (1939)
- "You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart)" (1946)
- "When We Are Dancing" (1951)
- "What a Wonderful World" (1968)
- Satchmo at Pasadena (1951)
- Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy (1955)
- Louis Armstrong at the Crescendo, Vol. 1 (1955)
- Louis and the Angels (1957)
- Louis and the Good Book (1958)
- Satchmo In Style (1959)
- Hello, Dolly! (1964)
- Struttin' (1996)
Fitzgerald
- Armstrong-Fitzgerald history
- Ella and Louis (1956)
- Ella and Louis Again (1957)
- Porgy and Bess (1959)
- The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve
collaborations
- Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson (1957)
- Bing & Satchmo (1960)
- The Great Summit (1961)
- The Real Ambassadors (1961)
- "Willie the Weeper"
- "West End Blues" (1928)
- "Ain't Misbehavin'"
- "When the Saints Go Marching In"
- "Mack the Knife" (1956)
- "Autumn in New York"
- "On My Way" (1959)
- "Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby" (1959)
- "Hello, Dolly!" (1964)
- "What a Wonderful World" (1967)
- "We Have All the Time in the World" (1969)
- "Alexander's Ragtime Band"
- "April in Paris"
- "Back Home Again in Indiana"
- "Basin Street Blues"
- "Big Butter and Egg Man"
- "Blue Turning Grey Over You"
- "Blueberry Hill"
- "C'est si bon"
- "Can't We Be Friends?"
- "Cheek to Cheek"
- "Cold, Cold Heart"
- "Cool Yule"
- "Dippermouth Blues"
- "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?"
- "Dream a Little Dream of Me"
- "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)"
- "El Choclo"
- "Everybody Loves My Baby"
- "Frankie and Johnny"
- "Georgia on My Mind"
- "Get Together"
- "Gone Fishin'"
- "The Gypsy in My Soul"
- "Heebie Jeebies"
- "Hello, Dolly!"
- "Hey Lawdy Mama"
- "High Society Calypso"
- "I Get Ideas"
- "I Wonder"
- "I've Got the World on a String"
- "It's Been a Long, Long Time"
- "Jeepers Creepers"
- "A Kiss to Build a Dream On"
- "(Up A) Lazy River"
- "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off"
- "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love"
- "Moon River"
- "Moonlight in Vermont"
- "Muggles"
- "Muskrat Ramble"
- "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
- "Now You Has Jazz"
- "On a Little Bamboo Bridge"
- "On My Way"
- "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
- "Pennies from Heaven"
- "Potato Head Blues"
- "Red Sails in the Sunset"
- "Rockin' Chair"
- "Saint Louis Blues"
- "Shine"
- "Skokiaan"
- "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
- "St. James Infirmary Blues"
- "Standing on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)"
- "Stardust"
- "Stars Fell on Alabama"
- "Takes Two to Tango"
- "That Lucky Old Sun"
- "That's My Desire"
- "There Must Be Somebody Else"
- "They All Laughed"
- "Uncle Satchmo's Lullaby"
- "La Vie en rose"
- "When It's Sleepy Time Down South"
- "When You're Smiling"
- "Willow Weep for Me"
- "Winter Wonderland"
- "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah"
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